Member

As I said at the beginning, the amendment is drafted as if we are “Grocotted”, but we could as well be garrotted. You could get rid of us all and still run a form of election process, as we have run. What that process has demonstrated is that it works. It produces a good flow of good Peers, and that is not a mechanism that we should lay to one side unless we are really confident that we are going to get something else in its place. I look forward to returning to this issue on Report with something rather more precisely drafted. But, for now, I beg leave to withdraw my amendment.